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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
passages rather than the placing of individual<br />
words very fine and very true."<br />
To Miss Seaton {written in Hospital, 1916).<br />
" I was very glad to have your letter and know<br />
there is no longer a mix-up ahout letters and suchlike.<br />
Always the best thing to do is to answer at<br />
once, that is the likeliest way of catching one, for<br />
we shift about so quickly ; how long I will stay<br />
here I cannot say: it may be a while or just a bit.<br />
I have some Shakespeare :<br />
'<br />
the Comedies and also<br />
Macbeth.'* Now I see your argument and cannot<br />
deny my treatment of your criticisms, but have<br />
you ever asked yourself why I always am rude to<br />
your criticisms? Now, I intended to show you<br />
's letters and why I value his criticisms. I<br />
think anybody can pick holes and find unsound<br />
parts in any work of art ; anyone can say Christ's<br />
creed is a slave's creed, the Mosaic is a vindictive,<br />
savage creed, and so on. It is the unique and<br />
superior, the illuminating qualities one wants to<br />
find— discover the direction of the impulse-<br />
Whatever anybody thinks of a poet he will always<br />
know himself: he knows that the most marvellously<br />
expressed idea is still nothing ; and it is<br />
stupid to think that praise can do him harm. I<br />
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